Acoustic Reverberation at the Sea Surface: Surface and Sublayer Spectra Vis-a-Vis Scattering and Reflection

Acoustic Reverberation at the Sea Surface: Surface and Sublayer Spectra Vis-a-Vis Scattering and Reflection
Author: John J. Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 1968
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The paper combines previously developed theories of surface and volume scattering and reflection with published and previously unpublished acoustic reverberation data to develop a composite theory for reverberation strength as a function of acoustic frequency, incidence or grazing angle, and sea-surface wind speed. In passing, spectra of sea-surface roughness and of the surface sublayer turbulence are developed, these spectra being consonant with theoretical and experimental estimates. (Author).

Space-frequency Correlations in Multistatic Acoustic Reverberation Due to a Wind-driven Sea Surface

Space-frequency Correlations in Multistatic Acoustic Reverberation Due to a Wind-driven Sea Surface
Author: R. F. Gragg
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Total Pages: 60
Release: 1999
Genre: Seawater
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Analytic methods are used to assess the impact of the two-dimensional (2-D) wave spectrum of a wind-driven sea on multistatic low-frequency surface reverberation. The problem is initially posed with a narrowband source beneath a time-dependent sea surface in an ocean that can have depth dependence and bottom layering. The propagated signal interacts with the slower moving surface waves to produce a narrowband scattered field. The small-waveheight approximation is applied to a deterministic sea surface to express the scattered field in terms of the surface elevation and the Green's function for a perfectly calm sea. Randomness is then incorporated into the surface description, and its impact is formulated for an arbitrarily placed pair of receivers. The three-dimensional (3-D) cross-spectral density (CSD) of the reverberation is reduced to a sum of baseband and sideband terms formulated as multiple mean-sea-surface integrals. The sideband result is identified as an active scattering generalization of the van Cittert-Zernike theorem from partial coherence theory. The focus is then narrowed to shallow deployment in a homogeneous ocean, and stationary-phase estimates are used to produce analytic expressions for the CSD. The zero-Doppler component and Bragg-Doppler sidebands are expressed in terms of the power spectrum of the source, the power spectrum and directionality of the surface waves, and the multistatic source/receiver geometry. Sample sideband calculations are provided to illustrate the results, and system implications are considered.

Ocean Reverberation

Ocean Reverberation
Author: Dale D. Ellis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9401120781

During the past decade there has been a renewed interest in active sonar systems at both low and medium frequencies. More recently this interest has been extended to very high frequencies in shallow water. Reverberation often limits the detection performance of these systems, and there is a need to understand the underlying mechanisms that cause the scattering. With more emphasis being given to reverberation phenomena in the Scientific Program of Work at the SACLANT Undersea Research Centre, it was considered an opportune time to host a meeting, bringing together scientists from NATO countries to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and generate ideas for new research directions. Consequently the Ocean Reverberation Symposium was held 25-29 May 1992 in La Spezia, Italy. Over 60 presentations were made on a diverse selection of topics, of which ten papers will be published as a SACLANTCEN Conference Proceedings. The papers in this volume are grouped into 8 sections, usually in the same order as presented at the corresponding session of the Symposium: Section 1 - Scattering Mechanisms Section 2 - High Frequency Measurements and Mechanisms Section 3 - Reverberation Modelling Section 4 - ARSRP Mid-Atlantic Ridge Experiment Section 5 - Low Frequency Measurements Section 6 - Volume Scattering Section 7 - Signal Processing Issues Section 8 - Applications Taken together the papers show some emerging trends in the research.

Fundamentals of Ocean Acoustics

Fundamentals of Ocean Acoustics
Author: L. Brekhovskikh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3662023423

The continents of our planet have already been exploited to a great extent. Therefore man is turning his sight to the vast spaciousness of the ocean whose resources - mineral, biological, energetic, and others - are just beginning to be used. The ocean is being intensively studied. Our notions about the dynam ics of ocean waters and their role in forming the Earth's climate as well as about the structure of the ocean bottom have substantially changed during the last two decades. An outstanding part in this accelerated exploration of the ocean is played by ocean acoustics. Only sound waves can propagate in water over large distances. Practically all kinds of telemetry, communication, location, and re mote sensing of water masses and the ocean bottom use sound waves. Propa gating over thousands of kilometers in the ocean, they bring information on earthquakes, eruptions of volcanoes, and distant storms. Projects using acoustical tomography systems for exploration of the ocean are presently be ing developed. Each of these systems will allow us to determine the three-di mensional structure of water masses in regions as large as millions of square kilometers.